And speaking of Mayan armageddon in 2012, there's also an article on the Georgia Guidestones, a monument in Georgia erected by a secret society to provide direction to the remnants of humanity that survive a coming apocalypse. The stones don't give any specific timeframe, but they do attract lunatic conspiracy theorists. (Satanists, aliens, and Rosicrucians, oh my!)

Of course, no discussion of the apocalypse would be truly complete without a mention of the Zombie Apocalypse.

So, in 2012 most of humanity is going to be turned into zombies by solar flares, and Neil Strauss and a few other stragglers will survive, and thanks to the Rosicrucians, they'll have a giant stone monument in Georgia that will help them to rebuild civilization by suggesting that everyone recycle.